All posts tagged Mercedes-Benz 300SL “Gullwing”

I cringe when people talk about collectible cars as investments because a musty old ride is not a good place to put your money — unless it happens to be one of the 1,400 Mercedes-Benz 300SL coupes built from 1954 to 1957. If yours is one of 29 lightweight “alloy” models, all the better.

One of those alloy coupes sold last night for $4.6 million including the buyer’s premium at the Gooding & Co. auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. It would be an exaggeration to say the sale price was 10 times what it would have been a decade ago. But it is easily seven or eight times what alloy 300SLs were going for, say, a dozen years ago.